Vehicle wheel



Feb. 6, 1923, 1,444.5@9

' E. KEMP.

VEHICLE WHEEL. FILED MAY17,19`19.

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Midifile@ 5i anni it?. OF TORONTO, ONTMSID, CANADA, LSSXGNR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE .liSG-NLMENTS, Oli @NE-THIRD 'ICO GEORGE snuff-inn T0 CHARLES R'UGGLES, BOTH OF TURONTO, GNTLRO, CANADA.

VEHCLE 'WHEEL Application filed .fliay i?, i932.

To all iti/tom 'it may concer-n:

ide it known that EDWARD KEMP, ot the city of Toronto, in the county or" York, in the Pfovince oit ntario, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Vehicle TWheels; and do hereby declare that the 'following is a full, clear, and exact description or' same.

This invention has reference to means and methods of construction and assembling of wheels, being particularly applicable to metal wheels, and has for its object to provide for the easy assembling and tightening of spokes in such wheels, and the eliecting et the compression ot' resilient cushions located between the spokes and the elloe, or the spokes and the hub, or between the spokes and both the telloe and the hub, where such cushions are so provided, whereby strength and rigidity of the wheel in construction may be obtained, whilst maii'itaining the desirable resiliency in action, without involving undue complicity or materially adding to the expense oir' constructior.

Fur-ther objects subsidiary to or resulting from the aforesaid objects, or from the construction or operation of the invention as it may be carried into eitect, will become apparent as the said invention is hereinafter further disclosed.

In carrying the said invention into effec l may provide the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, by way oi example, having reference to the accompanying drawing, in which zh Figure l is a fragmentary elevation of a wheel embodying this invention, and

Figure 2 is a transverse section of such a wheel with the lower parts broken away.

Similar characters of reference indicate similar parts in both figures of the drawing.

In illustrating an embodiment of my invention i have shown the same as applied to an all-metal wheel, to which it is particularly applicable, producing a very rigid structure suon as has not been attained in metal wheels as heretofore constructed in which the assembling of the spokes has been eiiected by riveting, threaded engagement and so-orth, without securing substantial initial compression in the spokes oit a wheel.

l, 2, and 3 indicate tubular spokes tending radially from the hub t to the felloe efal No. 237,347.

of a wheel, the spokes being shown as being cupped at their ends, as at la, and 2a. respectively, to accommodate resilient cush-l ions Ywhich are adapted to absorb shock between the spokes and the hub and felloe of the wheel and to be substantially compressed when the wheel is assembled. 'Pins 5 project from the felloe into the outer ends of the said spokes, and from rings or supports o and into the inner ends of the said spel-ies, the said spokes beingv slidable on tie said pins whereby a radially slidable connection. for the said spokes is formed.

@The rings, or supports, 6 and 7 are slidably rf `nted, on the said hub, on either side ot n intermediate positioning means or bange 8 through which pass bolts 9; the said bolts also passing` through lone or the said rings and being threaded into the other oil 'the said rings whereby the tightening of the said bolts will eti'ect the drawing toer ot' the said rings towards the interte flange 8. Suitable means, such as `ns il?, may be employed to limit the closing t @other ot the said rings 6 and 7 to any uesired extent, and are preferably adapted to variation to suit requirements, such as by the removal or addition of one or more of the shims., where shims are employed, according to the spacing of the rings 6 and 7 desired when in their closed rllhese limiting` means may be of aresilient nature.

ln assemblingl a wheel such as that illust ated, the rings (i and .7 are set as tar apart may be required and the inner ends of t spokes passed over their respective pro- ]ecting pins on the said rings, the spokes being alternately connected to the said rings 6 and 7, whereby they are staggered, and the upper ends of the spokes are connected with the pins ou the iielloe; or the said upper ends o'l1 the spokes may be brought into their respective positions relevant to the felice and the pins passed through the telloe into the spokes, where a construction admitting of this is adopted. .ter the connection ot both ends oit the spokes, the rings are drawn towards one another bv means of the bolts V9, whereby a compression is set up in the said spokes, and the closing of the rings is continued until the `desired compression and rigidity of the wheel is attained.

being initially spaced on The means determining the extent of inward movement of the said rings may be regulated to suit the extent of movement and the consequent compression of the spokes desired. The connections between the spokes and the felice, cr the spokes and the rings may be slightly iiexible, that is, capable of slight angular mcvement. if desired or may be rigid as to such movement as requirements may dictate.

rli`his invention may be developed within the scope of the following claims without departing from the essential features of the said invention and it is desired that the specification and drawing be read being merely illustrative and not in a limiting sense, except as necessitated by the prior art.

iVhat l claim as my invention is i. In a wheel, a felice, a hub, radial pins on said felice, a plurality of radial spokes slidabie on said pins and adjustabiy supported on said hub, said spokes being initiaily staggered on said hub to a substantial extent with respect to the plane of said felice, resilient cushions interposed between said spokesand the parts to which they are connected, and means adapted to reduce the staggering of said spokes` and thereby effeet the sliding of said spokes over .said pins and the compression of said cushions.

2. in a wheel, a felice, a hub, radial pins on said felice, a plurality of radial spokes slidable on said pins, adjustable spoke supports arranged on said hub, said supports either side of the plane of said felice to a substantial extent and the inner ends of said spokes alternately connected to one or other of said spaced supports, whereby said spokes are staggered, resilient cushions interposed between said spokes and said felice, and means adapted tc reduce the staggering of said spokes and Ythereby effect the sliding of said spokes over said pins and the compression of said cushions.

3. A vehicle wheel including a felice, a hub, spokes extending between the hub and felice, resilient means between an end of the spoke and one of said parts held under conipression and means for exerting an outer end-wise compression upon the spokes against the compressed insulating resilient medium, said means for exerting this cuter pressure being transverse to the longitudinal axis of the spokes.

4. A vehicle wheel including a hub, felice and spokes, resilient insulating means held under compression between the opposite ends of the spokes and the felice and hub, and means for moving the inner ends of the spokes transversely to the longitudinal axes of the spokes whereby to exert stress longitudinally therethrough between the spoke and felice, further compressing the resilient insulating mediums already under initial compression.

'5. A vehicle wheel including a hub, felice and spokes, resilient insulating means heid under compression between 'the opposite ends of the spokes and the felice and hub, and pins extending toward cach other from the felice and hub received within the opposite ends of the spokes with which the latter are slidably connected, and means for moving the inner ends. of the spokes transversely to the longitudinal axes of the spokes whereby to exert stress longitudinally therethrough between the spoke and felice, further compressing the resilient insulating mediums aiready under initial compression.

. 6. The combination with a hub, felice and spokes extending from hub to felice of resilient means between an end of the spokes and one of said parts, rings slidably ccnnected with the opposite ends cf the hub and to which the inner ends of the spokes are connected, and means for connecting said rings and for drawing them inwardly tcward each other with the eect of forcing the spokes securely between the felice and hub and further compressing the resilient means at an end of the spokes.

7. The combination with a hub, felice and `spokes of a vehicle wheel, of two rings mounted on the hub, pins extending from the felice and the rings in a direction tcward each other and in axial alignment and received in the opposite ends of the spokes, resilient insulating means heid under ccmpression between the opposite ends of the spokes and the felice, and the rings, and means for Yforcing the rings inwardly toward each other upon the hub whereby to exert an outward pressure upon the felice longitudinally of the spokes.

8.. rlhe combination with a hub, felice and spokes of a vehicle wheel, of two rings mounted on the hub, pins extending from the felice and rings in a direction toward each other and in axial alignment and received in the opposite ends of the spokes, resilient insulating means held under compression between the opposite ends of the spokes and the felice, and the rings, and means for forcing the rings inwardly toward each other and upon the hub whereby to exert an outward pressure upon the felice longitudinally Aof the spokes, said last mentioned means in the form of screws which extend through one ring and are threaded into the other, and a central flange on the hub between the rings through which the screws extend and turn.

Signed at the city of rlorontc, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, this 22mL day or xpnrieia EDWARD KEMP. 

